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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When it gets this bad you don’t clean out the room, you purge the storage area. Make a list of all your storage areas. Pick one, the attic, the closet, a cupboard. Be ruthless and make it as empty as possible. 
THEN you can purge. Give away, throw out, just do it.

Then decide what kind of stuff you want to put back in. Slowly, methodically do this so the stuff in storage is related, easy to find and efficiently put away.

Continue to go thru your list of storage areas over a day/week/month. Whatever you can manage.

I find that messy people don’t use their storage correctly, it is filled with junk and then all the stuff that is used regularly has no home.[/quote]

This is OP - I think this person is right. This morning after whining on here, I did the master closet with a kid underfoot. I got rid of a few big giveaway bags and redid the underbed boxes (purged the summer stuff and put winter stuff in there). It was SO nice to put away the laundry after.

You are right that I don't use my storage correctly. I try. But I tend to feel like oh, there's room in there. So I stick something in there that doesn't really have a proper home, and then it gets harder to get to the homes and things start not getting put away promptly, and it snowballs. By the time I get to the state I'm in now, the things in the closets and storage areas are the very rarely used things that should probably go anyway.

I really do try. My kitchen cabinets and drawers stay very, very neat and tidy. Because I have all the tools/dishes, they all have a place, and I almost never buy more. The pantry, on the other hand, spirals out of control. So I know I can do it if I just manage the stuff. But needs change, sizes change, hobbies come and go etc etc.

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